Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 298 304
Rank change year-on-year +60 +6 -97
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 561 596 517
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 0.92% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.07% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 238 294 391
10th Percentile £42,025 £42,608 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,268 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £96,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,108 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.51% -1.37% +9.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,446 55,486 47,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.93% 85.56% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,712 28,853 36,694
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +72 507 £70,000 +5.66% 177
London +104 277 £80,000 +3.23% 64
UK excluding London -2 237 £62,500 -2.51% 156
Work from Home +27 158 £72,250 +11.15% 144
South East +28 90 £62,500 -3.85% 57
North of England +6 49 £72,500 +11.54% 26
Midlands -2 42 £64,500 -6.18% 18
West Midlands +28 26 £57,468 -11.59% 9
Yorkshire +17 25 £80,000 +23.08% 7
North West +21 23 £67,500 - 14
East of England +40 22 £72,000 -0.69% 17
South West -11 16 £62,500 +16.28% 26
East Midlands -7 14 £80,000 +14.29% 9
Northern Ireland +5 11 £75,000 +26.20%
Scotland 0 5 £42,000 -24.95% 9
Wales +9 4 £53,750 -16.16% 4
North East +4 1 - - 5

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.03%) Confluence
2 6 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) CMS
4 2 (0.36%) CICS
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.36%) MTS
5 1 (0.18%) Mule
Applications
1 14 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.53%) Trello
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.21%) Payment Gateway
2 12 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.89%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.71%) Shopify
5 1 (0.18%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 79 (14.08%) Azure
2 77 (13.73%) SaaS
3 59 (10.52%) AWS
4 41 (7.31%) GCP
5 30 (5.35%) Vertex AI
6 26 (4.63%) PaaS
7 25 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.03%) Azure AI
8 17 (3.03%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.32%) H2O.ai
9 13 (2.32%) OpenShift
10 12 (2.14%) GitHub
11 6 (1.07%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 3 (0.53%) Collibra
14 3 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.53%) Google Analytics
15 2 (0.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.43%) 5G
1 8 (1.43%) Broadband
2 7 (1.25%) RTP
3 6 (1.07%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.07%) HTTP
3 6 (1.07%) PSTN
3 6 (1.07%) WAN
4 5 (0.89%) LAN
4 5 (0.89%) Wireless
5 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.53%) DNS
6 3 (0.53%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.53%) Network Security
7 2 (0.36%) ATM
7 2 (0.36%) GPRS
7 2 (0.36%) LTE
7 2 (0.36%) Modbus
7 2 (0.36%) SAN
7 2 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.57%) Metadata
2 18 (3.21%) Data Mining
2 18 (3.21%) Relational Database
3 15 (2.67%) Power BI
4 14 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 14 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.14%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.07%) SAP BW
7 6 (1.07%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.89%) Tableau
9 4 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.71%) KDB
9 4 (0.71%) Kdb+
10 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.36%) DB2
11 2 (0.36%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.18%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 35 (6.24%) JIRA
2 5 (0.89%) TeamCity
3 4 (0.71%) ERwin
4 3 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (0.53%) Spinnaker
5 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.36%) YouTrack
6 1 (0.18%) Bazaar
6 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.18%) Jaeger
General
1 225 (40.11%) Social Skills
2 204 (36.36%) Finance
3 125 (22.28%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (22.10%) Marketing
5 73 (13.01%) Law
6 63 (11.23%) Legal
7 47 (8.38%) Banking
7 47 (8.38%) Retail
8 42 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (6.42%) Financial Institution
10 32 (5.70%) Manufacturing
11 28 (4.99%) Electronics
12 26 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (4.63%) Public Sector
13 23 (4.10%) Telecoms
14 17 (3.03%) Billing
14 17 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (2.85%) Digital Economy
16 12 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 152 (27.09%) Product Manager
2 88 (15.69%) Lead
3 79 (14.08%) Senior
4 29 (5.17%) Senior Manager
5 24 (4.28%) Product Owner
6 21 (3.74%) Product Management Director
6 21 (3.74%) Security Engineer
6 21 (3.74%) Senior Product Manager
7 20 (3.57%) Architect
8 16 (2.85%) Developer
8 16 (2.85%) Product Delivery Manager
8 16 (2.85%) Product Lead
9 15 (2.67%) Digital Product Manager
10 14 (2.50%) Technical Support
11 13 (2.32%) Change Manager
11 13 (2.32%) Software Engineer
12 11 (1.96%) Head of Product Management
13 10 (1.78%) Backend Developer
13 10 (1.78%) Development Manager
13 10 (1.78%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.57%) REST
1 20 (3.57%) YAML
2 13 (2.32%) Flask
2 13 (2.32%) Keras
2 13 (2.32%) PyTorch
2 13 (2.32%) TensorFlow
3 9 (1.60%) FastAPI
4 7 (1.25%) .NET
4 7 (1.25%) EDI
5 6 (1.07%) Node.js
5 6 (1.07%) React
6 4 (0.71%) JSON
6 4 (0.71%) OAuth
6 4 (0.71%) SAML
6 4 (0.71%) SOAP
6 4 (0.71%) XML
7 3 (0.53%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.53%) Django
7 3 (0.53%) Spring
7 3 (0.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 81 (14.44%) Product Ownership
2 55 (9.80%) Onboarding
3 38 (6.77%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (5.53%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 20 (3.57%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.39%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.21%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.50%) Cloud Native
9 13 (2.32%) Driving Licence
9 13 (2.32%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.96%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.78%) Social Media
12 8 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.43%) Tandem
12 8 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.25%) IoT
13 7 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (0.89%) Derivative
14 5 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.43%) Windows
2 6 (1.07%) Linux
3 2 (0.36%) AIX
3 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (0.36%) zOS
4 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (47.77%) Roadmaps
2 232 (41.35%) Agile
3 149 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
4 127 (22.64%) Product Strategy
5 126 (22.46%) Product Roadmap
6 98 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 97 (17.29%) AI
7 97 (17.29%) Analytics
8 88 (15.69%) User Experience
9 87 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 79 (14.08%) Computer Science
10 79 (14.08%) Information Security
11 75 (13.37%) B2B
12 69 (12.30%) Decision-Making
13 68 (12.12%) Value Proposition
14 66 (11.76%) DevOps
14 66 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
15 65 (11.59%) Machine Learning
16 64 (11.41%) Coaching
16 64 (11.41%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 42 (7.49%) Python
1 42 (7.49%) SQL
2 20 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 19 (3.39%) Java
4 6 (1.07%) C#
5 5 (0.89%) Go
6 3 (0.53%) C++
6 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.36%) Bash
7 2 (0.36%) COBOL
7 2 (0.36%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.36%) JCL
7 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.36%) Scala
8 1 (0.18%) Groovy
8 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.18%) PHP
8 1 (0.18%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 133 (23.71%) Degree
2 60 (10.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 52 (9.27%) Master's Degree
4 29 (5.17%) Security Cleared
5 19 (3.39%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.43%) MBA
7 7 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.25%) PMP
8 5 (0.89%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.89%) CISSP
8 5 (0.89%) CSPO
9 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.71%) CISM
9 4 (0.71%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.53%) CITP
10 3 (0.53%) HNC
10 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.36%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.88%) QA
2 30 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (4.46%) NIST
4 21 (3.74%) NCSC
5 20 (3.57%) Data Quality
6 16 (2.85%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.07%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.89%) IFRS
8 5 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.89%) PMO
9 4 (0.71%) PSD2
9 4 (0.71%) SEPA
10 3 (0.53%) GDPR
10 3 (0.53%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.53%) SLA
11 2 (0.36%) COREP
11 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.36%) FINREP
12 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 14 (2.50%) Docker
2 5 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.89%) vSphere
3 2 (0.36%) Firmware
3 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.36%) RACF
3 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (2.67%) Terraform
2 14 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.71%) Ansible
3 4 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (0.36%) Puppet
4 2 (0.36%) Salt
4 2 (0.36%) WSUS
5 1 (0.18%) Argo
5 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 80 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 51 (9.09%) Google
3 23 (4.10%) Foundry
4 21 (3.74%) Databricks
5 20 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.85%) SAP
7 15 (2.67%) Dell
7 15 (2.67%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.32%) NVIDIA
9 7 (1.25%) Oracle
10 6 (1.07%) Zoho
11 5 (0.89%) Manugistics
11 5 (0.89%) VMware
12 4 (0.71%) Apple
13 3 (0.53%) Adobe
13 3 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.53%) Sage
13 3 (0.53%) Tenable
13 3 (0.53%) YouTube
14 2 (0.36%) Instagram